As it continues to expand its global profile, Nordic major Sf Studios is ramping up its U.K. operations with high-profile new hires and is developing “Don’t Move,” an English-language survival thriller project to be directed by Scandinavian up-and-comer Alain Darborg (“Alex”).
Sf Studios, which celebrated its 100th anniversary last year, stepped into English-Language moviemaking with “Borg McEnroe,” starring Shia Labeouf, and most recently with “Horizon Line,” which is now in post and has been sold nearly worldwide by Stx.
Based on an original story by Darborg, “Don’t Move” is set in Los Angeles and follows a medical student, Ali, who volunteers for the night shift at a Californian zoo. After a rescue mission goes awry, she finds herself trapped in the anaconda enclosure. It will take all of her willpower and intelligence to survive until morning with a hungry predator chasing her down and nowhere to hide. The action...
Sf Studios, which celebrated its 100th anniversary last year, stepped into English-Language moviemaking with “Borg McEnroe,” starring Shia Labeouf, and most recently with “Horizon Line,” which is now in post and has been sold nearly worldwide by Stx.
Based on an original story by Darborg, “Don’t Move” is set in Los Angeles and follows a medical student, Ali, who volunteers for the night shift at a Californian zoo. After a rescue mission goes awry, she finds herself trapped in the anaconda enclosure. It will take all of her willpower and intelligence to survive until morning with a hungry predator chasing her down and nowhere to hide. The action...
- 2/22/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
At an event held today in Berlin, Scandi powerhouse Sf Studios revealed that it has boosted its UK office with two executive hires as it looks to increase its output of English Language film and TV projects.
Joining the company are Sudie Smyth as VP Production UK & International, and Indy Datta as VP Legal & Business Affairs UK & International.
Smyth was previously Head of Production at Pinewood Pictures, and more recently worked at European Film Bonds as a completion guarantor on titles including How To Guild A Girl and Wild Rose. Datta is an established lawyer who has worked producers, distributors, broadcasters and financiers.
The pair will report directly to Fredrik Wikström Nicastro, the company’s Stockholm-based Senior Vice President International Production, and work closely with Kate Myers, VP Development UK & international, who heads up the London office.
Sf’s drive for English language content follows its first two international features,...
Joining the company are Sudie Smyth as VP Production UK & International, and Indy Datta as VP Legal & Business Affairs UK & International.
Smyth was previously Head of Production at Pinewood Pictures, and more recently worked at European Film Bonds as a completion guarantor on titles including How To Guild A Girl and Wild Rose. Datta is an established lawyer who has worked producers, distributors, broadcasters and financiers.
The pair will report directly to Fredrik Wikström Nicastro, the company’s Stockholm-based Senior Vice President International Production, and work closely with Kate Myers, VP Development UK & international, who heads up the London office.
Sf’s drive for English language content follows its first two international features,...
- 2/22/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Don’t Move is to be directed by Alain Darborg, who is currently working on Netflix’s first original film, Red Dot.
Nordic distribution and production company Sf Studios is expanding its London team, which leads the company’s English-language productions, with the addition of Sudie Smyth as VP Production UK & International, and Indy Datta, VP Legal & Business Affairs UK & International. Both will report to Fredrik Wikström Nicastro, Svp International Production at Sf Studios, and work closely with Kate Myers, VP Development UK & international.
Datta previously worked at Buccaneer Media and Smyth was previously head of production at Pinewood Pictures.
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Nordic distribution and production company Sf Studios is expanding its London team, which leads the company’s English-language productions, with the addition of Sudie Smyth as VP Production UK & International, and Indy Datta, VP Legal & Business Affairs UK & International. Both will report to Fredrik Wikström Nicastro, Svp International Production at Sf Studios, and work closely with Kate Myers, VP Development UK & international.
Datta previously worked at Buccaneer Media and Smyth was previously head of production at Pinewood Pictures.
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- 2/22/2020
- by 1100142¦Wendy Mitchell¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Projects range from a film about centenarians to documentaries about renowned hunger striker Bobby Sands, Winnie Mandela, Ratko Mladic and Madonna’s backing dancers.Scroll down for full list of projects
Idfa (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) has unveiled the 50 titles that will be presented at its international co-finance and production market, the Idfa Forum (Nov 24-26).
At the market, filmmakers and producers will present their documentary projects to commissioning editors from international television stations and other financiers with the aim of completing finance for their documentary projects.
A total of 50 projects have been selected for the upcoming Idfa Forum, including new projects by Heddy Honigmann, Janus Metz and Vitaly Mansky.
The Idfa 2014 programme contains 17 documentaries that were presented as projects at previous editions of the Idfa Forum.
Projects selected for this year’s Idfa Forum will be pitched in a variety of settings: the central pitches in the main auditorium of the Compagnietheater, the round table...
Idfa (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) has unveiled the 50 titles that will be presented at its international co-finance and production market, the Idfa Forum (Nov 24-26).
At the market, filmmakers and producers will present their documentary projects to commissioning editors from international television stations and other financiers with the aim of completing finance for their documentary projects.
A total of 50 projects have been selected for the upcoming Idfa Forum, including new projects by Heddy Honigmann, Janus Metz and Vitaly Mansky.
The Idfa 2014 programme contains 17 documentaries that were presented as projects at previous editions of the Idfa Forum.
Projects selected for this year’s Idfa Forum will be pitched in a variety of settings: the central pitches in the main auditorium of the Compagnietheater, the round table...
- 10/14/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
IFC Midnight has acquired North and Latin American rights to director Jon Wright’s sci-fi comedy Grabbers. The film had its world premiere in the Park City at Midnight section of the Sundance Film Festival in January. IFC plans a release later this year. Richard Coyle, Ruth Bradley, Russell Tovey, Lalor Roddy, David Pearse and Bronagh Gallagher star in the story of a sleepy Irish fishing village whose only defense against an attack by bloodsucking sea aliens is becoming very drunk. Kevin Lehane wrote the script. Photos: The Scene at Sundance Film Festival 2012 Tracy Brimm and Kate Myers of
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- 3/5/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Grabbers, starring Richard Coyle, Ruth Bradley and Russell Tovey picked up by IFC Midnight. IFC Midnight has announced that they are acquiring North American and Latin American rights to the film scripted by Kevin Lehane, and helmed by Jon Wright, reports Deadline. Forward Films' Tracy Brimm and Kate Myers produce along with Martina Niland of Samson Films, High Treason's Eduardo Levy and James Martin, and The Salt Company's Piers Tempest. We reviewed Grabbers at this year's Sundance Film Festival and gave it a solid 4/5 score. Also in the cast are Lalor Roddy, David Pearse, and Bronagh Gallagher. In Grabbers, something sinister has come to the shores of Erin Island, unbeknownst to the quaint population...
- 3/5/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Grabbers, starring Richard Coyle, Ruth Bradley and Russell Tovey picked up by IFC Midnight. IFC Midnight has announced that they are acquiring North American and Latin American rights to the film scripted by Kevin Lehane, and helmed by Jon Wright, reports Deadline. Forward Films' Tracy Brimm and Kate Myers produce along with Martina Niland of Samson Films, High Treason's Eduardo Levy and James Martin, and The Salt Company's Piers Tempest. We reviewed Grabbers at this year's Sundance Film Festival and gave it a solid 4/5 score. Also in the cast are Lalor Roddy, David Pearse, and Bronagh Gallagher. In Grabbers, something sinister has come to the shores of Erin Island, unbeknownst to the quaint population...
- 3/5/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Grabbers, starring Richard Coyle, Ruth Bradley and Russell Tovey picked up by IFC Midnight. IFC Midnight has announced that they are acquiring North American and Latin American rights to the film scripted by Kevin Lehane, and helmed by Jon Wright, reports Deadline. Forward Films' Tracy Brimm and Kate Myers produce along with Martina Niland of Samson Films, High Treason's Eduardo Levy and James Martin, and The Salt Company's Piers Tempest. We reviewed Grabbers at this year's Sundance Film Festival and gave it a solid 4/5 score. Also in the cast are Lalor Roddy, David Pearse, and Bronagh Gallagher. In Grabbers, something sinister has come to the shores of Erin Island, unbeknownst to the quaint population...
- 3/5/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Principal photography is underway in Belfast and Donegal, Ireland on the horror-comedy Grabbers, directed by Jon Wright from an original screenplay by Kevin Lehane. Director Jon Wright re-teams with producers Tracy Brimm and Kate Myers of Forward Films following their collaboration on 2009 teen horror Tormented.
Richard Coyle (Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time), Ruth Bradley (Flyboys) and Russell Tovey (Being Human) head the cast.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has acquired UK rights to the project which provides a comic twist on the classic suburban monster horror, as a sleepy Irish fishing village is forced to fend off a blood-sucking sea creature with an unlikely weapon…alcohol. The enchanting Erin Island community is shattered by an invasion of giant squid-like creatures from the sea, known as “grabbers,” who start picking off the villagers.
“Ciarán O’Shea, the handsome though washed up policeman of sleepy Erin Island, has a daily routine...
Richard Coyle (Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time), Ruth Bradley (Flyboys) and Russell Tovey (Being Human) head the cast.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has acquired UK rights to the project which provides a comic twist on the classic suburban monster horror, as a sleepy Irish fishing village is forced to fend off a blood-sucking sea creature with an unlikely weapon…alcohol. The enchanting Erin Island community is shattered by an invasion of giant squid-like creatures from the sea, known as “grabbers,” who start picking off the villagers.
“Ciarán O’Shea, the handsome though washed up policeman of sleepy Erin Island, has a daily routine...
- 12/6/2010
- by Dave
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
Principal photography is underway in Belfast and Donegal, Ireland on the horror-comedy Grabbers , directed by Jon Wright from an original screenplay by Kevin Lehane. Richard Coyle ( Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time ), Ruth Bradley ( Flyboys ) and Russell Tovey ( Being Human ) head the cast. Director Jon Wright re-teams with producers Tracy Brimm and Kate Myers of Forward Films following their collaboration on 2009 teen horror Tormented . Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has acquired UK rights to the project which provides a comic twist on the classic suburban monster horror, as a sleepy Irish fishing village is forced to fend off a blood-sucking sea creature with an unlikely weapon...alcohol. The enchanting Erin Island community is shattered by an invasion of giant...
- 12/6/2010
- shocktillyoudrop.com
A poolside catfight is taking place in a suburban British garden on a balmy summer’s day. Verbal abuse, accusations and recriminations charge the air as actresses Tuppence Middleton and April Pearson start pushing each other around, edging ever close to the water. One is going to get a real soaking, emerging from the swimming pool in full wet-t-shirt mode. It’s another deliberately ironic scene from Tormented, a British horror/comedy determined to take on the archetypal American high-school shocker. IFC Films gives the film its U.S. debut via its on-demand service this week.
On the location in Birmingham, England this September day, producer Tracy Brimm sums up the Tormented mission statement. “It’s an irreverent horror movie in the style of Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer,” she says, “about a bullied boy returning from the dead to take murderous revenge on the classmates who were responsible.
On the location in Birmingham, England this September day, producer Tracy Brimm sums up the Tormented mission statement. “It’s an irreverent horror movie in the style of Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer,” she says, “about a bullied boy returning from the dead to take murderous revenge on the classmates who were responsible.
- 10/21/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Alan Jones)
- Fangoria
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